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Kaskade‘s wife, Naomi Raddon, has filed for divorce from the electronic music producer after nearly 28 years of marriage.
A petition filed on October 16 in Los Angeles and reviewed by Billboard cites irreconcilable differences as the grounds for divorce. The couple married in August of 1996, with the filing listing July 22, 2024 as the date of separation.
The couple share three children, two over the age of 18 and one minor, who is 14. The filing requests joint custody of the child. A representative for Kaskade did not immediately respond to Billboard‘s request for comment.
Kaskade, 53, is considered one of the pioneers of EDM, helping bring the genre to the mainstream in the late aughts and early 2010s. A practicing Mormon, he’s also famous for being one of the few sober producers in dance music. This past February, he made history as the Super Bowl’s first ever in-game DJ and also played a historic set in 2021, when his headlining performance at Los Angeles’ then newly built SoFi Stadium become the venue’s first ever public show.
He and Deadmau5 also played a historic show in 2022, when the headlining set from their collaborative project Kx5 became the biggest ticketed global headlining dance event of 2022.
Raddon’s touring schedule in the years since has been characteristically heavy, as he’s played global festivals along with his residency at Zouk nightclub in Las Vegas. Last weekend alone, he played sets in Chicago, Provo, Las Vegas and Dallas. This week, the producer also announced a run of upcoming Christmas 2024 shows in New York City, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles.
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Wizkid has partnered with Brent Faiyaz on his new single “Piece of My Heart,” which was released on Friday (Oct. 18). It’s the lead single from Wizkid’s upcoming sixth studio album Morayo, which will be released on Nov. 22 via Starboy/Sony Music International/RCA Records.
The two artists were recently spotted in London together, with Wiz sharing a snippet of the song on Instagram. “Nothing can tear us apart/ You’ve got a piece of my heart/ Nothing can tear us apart (Nothing in this world)/ You’ve got a piece of my heart (That belongs to you girl),” Faiyaz sings in the chorus.
Wizkid has only been featured on a couple of collaborations this year, from “MMS” with Asake on his third album Lungu Boy to “Work Me Out” with Shenseea on her sophomore album, Never Gets Late Here. The only collaboration Faiyaz was a part of this year was “Should’ve Wore a Bonnet” with 21 Savage on his third album, American Dream.
Both artists, however, have a few common collaborators, from Don Toliver — both were featured on his 2023 album, Love Sick, with Wiz on “Slow Motion” and Faiyaz on “Bus Stop” — to Tems. Both Nigerian artists famously linked up on “Essence,” the sultry Afrobeats-meets-R&B smash that peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, thanks to a remix with Justin Bieber, and the R&B crooners came together on “Found” from her 2021 EP If Orange Was a Place, which reached No. 17 on Hot R&B Songs.
Morayo, which is a Yoruba word for “I see joy,” will arrive two years after Wiz dropped his fifth album More Love, Less Ego in 2022, which reached No. 59 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on World Albums.
Listen to “Piece of My Heart” below.
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